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100 1 $aProse, Francine,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50020196
245 10 $aReading like a writer :$ba guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them /$cFrancine Prose.
250 $a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper Perennial,$c2007, ©2006.
300 $a273, 21 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aClose reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately.
520 $aBefore there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xRhetoric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043678
650 0 $aCreative writing.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033847
650 0 $aAuthors$xBooks and reading.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010003327
600 10 $aProse, Francine,$d1947-$xBooks and reading.
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